Geir Ove Skjarvik wrote: > I get request timeout trying to ping: news.gmane.org. > > Can you ping "news.gmane.org" and give me the IP address? I can try to add > the IP directly in my news reader. The gmane.org firewall must block pings, but I can reach it both with http and newsreader. Ip address is 80.91.224.249